Value of Information for Healthcare Decision-Making

Dr. Anna Heath is a Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children, with affiliations at the University of Toronto and University College London. Her research aims to develop innovative statistical methods to design, prioritise and analyse clinical research within a Bayesian framework, with a focus on Value of Information methods. Dr. Christopher Jackson is a Senior Statistician at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge. He works on developing statistical methods with applications to population health, in particular, methods for combining different sources of data, Bayesian methods, survival and multistate models, and developing statistical software. Dr. Natalia Kunst is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, with additional affiliations at the Yale University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Dr. Kunst is a decision sciences and health economics researcher with interests in uncertainty and evidence in decision-analytic modelling and health economic evaluations, value of information analysis, and health disparities.

1. Health Economic Modelling. 2 .A Case Study: A Novel Chemotherapy Treatment. 3. The Expected Value of Perfect or Partial Perfect Information. 4. The Expected Value of Sample Information. 5. Reporting and Presenting Value of Information Analyses. 6. Value of Information: Success Stories. 7. Value of Information for Estimation Instead of Decision Making. 8. Structural Uncertainty and Value of Information. 9. Rapid Value of Information using Minimal Modelling. 10. EVSI Portfolio Optimisation. 11. Assessing Value of Information Given Non-Optimal Previous Decisions. 12. Value of Information and Implementation.